Beate Terfloth, Christiane Schlosser, Nadine Fecht, Bettina Munk, Malte Spor, Hanns Schimansky, Curt Asker, Kazuki Nakahara (from left to right), Photo by Christian Schiebe
“To the point “45 years of drawing gallery
At Inga Kondeyne’s drawing-focused gallery in Berlin, the exhibition “Auf den Punkt Gebracht” is now on view, celebrating Kondeyne’s 45 years of work as a gallerist.
Forty-five years ago, in 1980, Berlin was still divided by the Wall. Since then, the fall of the Wall, German reunification, and subsequent waves of internationalization have brought rapid changes to German society and to people’s everyday lives. The German art scene, too, underwent a series of shifts in response to these political and social transformations.
In the 1980s, the East German Berlin Painting School and the so-called Neue Wilde, known for their expressive brushwork and politically charged imagery, rose to prominence. In the 1990s, the Düsseldorf-based Becher School established German photography on the world stage. And in the 2000s, the resurgence of painting—most notably the Leipzig School—remains vivid in my memory.
Within the field of drawing in Germany, the concept of “contemporary drawing,” which expands the traditional notion of drawing on paper, gradually took root. Installations, performance-related drawing practices, and sculptural approaches to paper itself gained increasing attention. Kondeyne, however, continued to focus steadfastly on the simplicity of drawing on paper, observing with unwavering clarity what happens and changes on the surface of paper. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to trace the long path she has walked alongside drawing.
Below is her statement for the exhibition:
“45 years of gallery work – a long road with countless exhibitions up to today’s drawing gallery in Carmerstraße on Savi-gnyplatz in Berlin. Each one was and is a new challenge. This one too. There are mainly current drawings by 24 artists on display. Some works also come from the depot. Let us surprise you.
In the mid-1980s, during the time of the Rotunde Gallery in the Altes Museum, I fell under the spell of the medium of drawing through the art of my generation. This generation reacted to the traditional attitudes of the so-called East Berlin school of painting in an increasingly experimental way with abstract formulations on paper.
With works by Joachim Böttcher, Volker Henze, Hanns Schimansky and Harald Toppl, just three months after 9 November 1989, as an art historian I became part of the magnificent exhibition in Paris at the Grand Halle de la Vilette: L’autre Allemagne hors les murs.
Soon afterwards, I opened a new gallery in the Hackesche Höfe. This was the beginning of a fruitful and eventful collaboration with the gallery owner Rainer Borgemeister (1953 – 2001). My vision and my programme opened up through expanded visual experience and the insights that came with it. After Rainer Borgemeister’s fatal road accident, Galerie Seitz&Partner joined me in this place.
The cosmopolitan drawing worlds of the Swedish artist Curt Asker, the clearly composed black and white paper objects by Claudia Busching, the fascinating spatial installations with everyday materials by Bernhard Garbert, Hanns Schimansky’s drawings and folds with those foreboding spaces of thought in which the imagination lives itself out were groundbreaking for me.
From then on, I concentrated even more on linear formal inventions in drawing in the programme: Eve Aschheim, Thomas Gosebruch, Astrid Köppe, Christiane Schlosser, Malte Spohr, Sam Szembek, Dorothe Rocke, Beate Terfloth. The Hackesche Höfe were sold. I moved the gallery to Linienstraße, next door to the Swiss gallery owner Marianne Grob.
In the so-called noughties, I gradually opened up my programme to younger artists – mainly graduates of the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Today, at Carmerstraße 10, where the gallery has been located for almost 15 years, drawings by Hanna Hennenkemper, Kazuki Nakahara, Johannes Regin, Alexander Klenz and Christian Schiebe are integrated into my exhibition programme.
In Carmerstraße, the co-operation with Galerie Wichtendahl has been running for 10 years now. Cornelia Wichtendahl is a very committed collaborator when it comes to works on paper.
My thanks go to all named and unnamed artists and to all those who have accompanied and supported my drawing endeavours over the past 45 years.”
Hanns Schimansky. Photo by Christian SchiebeJohannes Regin, H.Frank Taffelt (from left to right). Photo by Christian SchiebeChristian Schiebe. photo by Christian SchiebeMark Lammert, Konrad Wohlhage (from left to right). Photo by Christian SchiebeThomas Gosebruch, Eve Aschheim, Marlies Appel, Dorothee Rocke (from left to right). Photo by Christian SchiebeChristiane Schlosser, Nadine Fecht, Bettina Munk, Malte Spor (from left to right). Photo by Christian Schiebe-, Astrid Köppe. Photo by Christian SchiebeCarsten Siever. Photo by Christian SchiebeHanna Hennenkemper. Photo by Christian SchiebeJana Troschke, Carsten Sievers, Alex Klenz, Hanna Hennenkemper (from left to right). Photo by Christian Schiebe
AUF DEN PUNKT GEBRACHT
45 Jahre Galeriearbeit
Oktober 25, 2025 – Dezember 6, 2025
MARLIES APPEL, EVE ASCHHEIM, CURT ASKER, JAMES BOCKELMAN, CLAUDIA BUSCHING, NADINE FECHT, THOMAS GOSEBRUCH, HANNA HENNENKEMPER, ALEXANDER KLENZ, ASTRID KÖPPE, BETTINA MUNK, KAZUKI NAKHAHARA, JOHANNES REGIN, DOROTHEE ROCKE, CHRISTIAN SCHIEBE, HANNS SCHIMANSKY, CARSTEN SIEVERS, CHRISTIANE SCHLOSSER, MALTE SPOHR, SAM SZEMBEK, H. FRANK TAFFELT, BEATE TERFLOTH, JANA TROSCHKE, KONRAD WOHLHAGE
Galerie Inga Kondeyne
Carmerstraße 10, am Savignyplatz
10623 Berlin
“To the point “45 years of drawing gallery
At Inga Kondeyne’s drawing-focused gallery in Berlin, the exhibition “Auf den Punkt Gebracht” is now on view, celebrating Kondeyne’s 45 years of work as a gallerist.
Forty-five years ago, in 1980, Berlin was still divided by the Wall. Since then, the fall of the Wall, German reunification, and subsequent waves of internationalization have brought rapid changes to German society and to people’s everyday lives. The German art scene, too, underwent a series of shifts in response to these political and social transformations.
In the 1980s, the East German Berlin Painting School and the so-called Neue Wilde, known for their expressive brushwork and politically charged imagery, rose to prominence. In the 1990s, the Düsseldorf-based Becher School established German photography on the world stage. And in the 2000s, the resurgence of painting—most notably the Leipzig School—remains vivid in my memory.
Within the field of drawing in Germany, the concept of “contemporary drawing,” which expands the traditional notion of drawing on paper, gradually took root. Installations, performance-related drawing practices, and sculptural approaches to paper itself gained increasing attention. Kondeyne, however, continued to focus steadfastly on the simplicity of drawing on paper, observing with unwavering clarity what happens and changes on the surface of paper. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to trace the long path she has walked alongside drawing.
Below is her statement for the exhibition:
“45 years of gallery work – a long road with countless exhibitions up to today’s drawing gallery in Carmerstraße on Savi-gnyplatz in Berlin. Each one was and is a new challenge. This one too. There are mainly current drawings by 24 artists on display. Some works also come from the depot. Let us surprise you.
In the mid-1980s, during the time of the Rotunde Gallery in the Altes Museum, I fell under the spell of the medium of drawing through the art of my generation. This generation reacted to the traditional attitudes of the so-called East Berlin school of painting in an increasingly experimental way with abstract formulations on paper.
With works by Joachim Böttcher, Volker Henze, Hanns Schimansky and Harald Toppl, just three months after 9 November 1989, as an art historian I became part of the magnificent exhibition in Paris at the Grand Halle de la Vilette: L’autre Allemagne hors les murs.
Soon afterwards, I opened a new gallery in the Hackesche Höfe. This was the beginning of a fruitful and eventful collaboration with the gallery owner Rainer Borgemeister (1953 – 2001). My vision and my programme opened up through expanded visual experience and the insights that came with it. After Rainer Borgemeister’s fatal road accident, Galerie Seitz&Partner joined me in this place.
The cosmopolitan drawing worlds of the Swedish artist Curt Asker, the clearly composed black and white paper objects by Claudia Busching, the fascinating spatial installations with everyday materials by Bernhard Garbert, Hanns Schimansky’s drawings and folds with those foreboding spaces of thought in which the imagination lives itself out were groundbreaking for me.
From then on, I concentrated even more on linear formal inventions in drawing in the programme: Eve Aschheim, Thomas Gosebruch, Astrid Köppe, Christiane Schlosser, Malte Spohr, Sam Szembek, Dorothe Rocke, Beate Terfloth. The Hackesche Höfe were sold. I moved the gallery to Linienstraße, next door to the Swiss gallery owner Marianne Grob.
In the so-called noughties, I gradually opened up my programme to younger artists – mainly graduates of the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Today, at Carmerstraße 10, where the gallery has been located for almost 15 years, drawings by Hanna Hennenkemper, Kazuki Nakahara, Johannes Regin, Alexander Klenz and Christian Schiebe are integrated into my exhibition programme.
In Carmerstraße, the co-operation with Galerie Wichtendahl has been running for 10 years now. Cornelia Wichtendahl is a very committed collaborator when it comes to works on paper.
My thanks go to all named and unnamed artists and to all those who have accompanied and supported my drawing endeavours over the past 45 years.”
AUF DEN PUNKT GEBRACHT
45 Jahre Galeriearbeit
Oktober 25, 2025 – Dezember 6, 2025
MARLIES APPEL, EVE ASCHHEIM, CURT ASKER, JAMES BOCKELMAN, CLAUDIA BUSCHING, NADINE FECHT, THOMAS GOSEBRUCH, HANNA HENNENKEMPER, ALEXANDER KLENZ, ASTRID KÖPPE, BETTINA MUNK, KAZUKI NAKHAHARA, JOHANNES REGIN, DOROTHEE ROCKE, CHRISTIAN SCHIEBE, HANNS SCHIMANSKY, CARSTEN SIEVERS, CHRISTIANE SCHLOSSER, MALTE SPOHR, SAM SZEMBEK, H. FRANK TAFFELT, BEATE TERFLOTH, JANA TROSCHKE, KONRAD WOHLHAGE
Galerie Inga Kondeyne
Carmerstraße 10, am Savignyplatz
10623 Berlin
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